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Title
Mary Lee Franklin, winner of the Shrine Talent and Beauty Pageant, rides in a parade, Los Angeles, 1959
Alternative Title
Later Los Angeles Street Scenes
Contributor
Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Date Created and/or Issued
[1959]
1959
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
Mary Lee Franklin, winner of the Shrine Talent and Beauty Pageant in June 1959, rides in the back of a Chrysler New Yorker convertible that is driven by a member of the Shrine Egyptian Temple No. 5. A crowd of onlookers on the sidewalk suggests that the car is part of a parade. A sign on the car reads "Shrine Talent & / Beauty Pageant / Mary Franklin / Egyptian Temple No. 5 / Los Angeles, Calif."
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b17_f04_005a.tif
ark:/21198/z13x9qsj
Subject
Parades & processions
Beauty pageants
Bartlett, Mary Lee Franklin, 1939-
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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